Three Stories and Ten Poems
$125,000 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · Signed · In dust jacket
Paris: Contact Publishing Company, 1923. Book. Very Good. Original Wraps. Inscribed by Author(s). First Edition. 12mo. Black lettered blue jacket over beige wraps, enclosed in green cloth slipcase. Hemingway s first book. Although Bill Bird s Three Mountains Press In Our Time was contracted earlier, Robert McAlmon s Contact Editions book was published and released first. Limited to 300 copies only. This copy inscribed by Hemingway on the front endpaper This book is the property of James Cowan--he is not responsible for it--nor did he buy it. It was presented to him by the author--Ernest Hemingway Cowan was a fellow reporter for the Toronto Star newspaper, for which Hemingway also worked. Included also is a sheaf of correspondence between former owners and James Cowan attesting to it s history and authenticity. Also included a dealer s catalogue in which this book was listed for sale back in late thirties or forties. This copy wrapped in glassine which is contemporary but not original. Wear and a few tears to the extremities but a particularly fine example of a fragile book, otherwise a very good copy. A great Toronto copy of an essential item in the Hemingway canon..
- Publisher: Contact Publishing Company
- Year: 1923
- Edition: First Edition
- Binding: Paperback
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